Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 20:43:00 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> Cc: Marc Wandschneider <marcw@lanfear.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <20000209204300.B38782@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <38A1B1B8.56042F38@math.udel.edu>; from Peter Schwenk on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:28:08PM -0500 References: <000101bf7328$89cad240$0300000a@katana> <38A1B1B8.56042F38@math.udel.edu>
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On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:28:08PM -0500, Peter Schwenk wrote: > It means it will not make a Microsoft compatible partition table on the drive and just > use a BSD type disklabel. This precludes installing other operating systems on the > drive. > Or more precisely, it will create a "fake" partition table, and FreeBSD will use the whole disk, starting from the second sector. Boot1, then boot2, then disklabel, then filessystem(s) data. > Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > blaugh! > > > > so, i've got FreeBSD 3.3 on a couple of machines, and i've got it taking up > > ALL of the SCSI disks on this system. This creates a "Dangerously > > Dedicated" warning ... what exactly does this mean? Should I worry about > > it? I don't plan on installing anything else, and if I do end up doing so, > > I'll just low-level the disks... > > > > marc. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator > Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware > schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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